Configuration Cheat-sheet :-)

Veeam is BIG. You have tons of settings on your hands and each customer comes with different needs hence requires different settings. Veeam gives you all the flexibility, but in order to use that, you'll need to know the specifics of the customer.

Veeam product

Customer wants to backup	Product to use
virtual machines	Veeam Backup & Replication
a stand-alone server	Veeam Backup Agent
a workstation	Veeam Backup Agent

Backup type

CPU + RAM resources	Storage resources	Restore speed required	Number of restore points	Backup Type
High	Fast storage	Fast	Below 15	Periodic active  full +  incrementals OR Reverse incrementals
Low	Fast	Fast	Below 15	Periodic active full +  incrementals
High	Slow	Fast	Below 15	Reverse incrementals
Low	Slow	"I take what I get"	Below 15	Forever forward incrementals OR Forward incrementals with weekly Synthetic Fulls
Any	Any	"I take what I get"	Above 15 (even as high as 30-60)	Forever forward incrementals (Full backups consume a lot of space if the backup chain is long.)

Application Aware processing

Configuration	Native backup used?	Recommendation
Customer has SQL, ActiveDirectory, Exchange, Sharepoint or Oracle installed	No SQL native backup	Enable Application Aware processing
Customer has SQL, ActiveDirectory, Exchange, Sharepoint or Oracle installed	Has SQL native backup	Enable AA processing, but on the SQL tab choose "copy only"
Customer has no applications depending on database integrity	-	Disable AA processing

Cloud backups: WAN acceleration

Bandwidth	License	Fast disk available for caching + has at least 8 GB of RAM	WAN Acceleration?
Below 100 Mbps	Enterprise / Enterprise Plus	Yes	YES
Below 100 Mbps	NO Ent license OR NO fast disk + RAM		Not eligible
Above 100 Mbps	-	-	Not needed, direct method is faster

Cloud backups: backup copy type

Restore point requirement	Backup Copy Type
Every restore point in the local backup needs to be copied to the cloud	Immediate copy
Not all restore points are needed (copies only the latest available restore point to the cloud)	Periodic copy

Cloud backups: backup window or network throttling?

CPU + RAM resources	Network bandwidth	Users affected by backups	Settings
High	High	No	-
Just enough / Low	High	Yes (lagging because of CPU load during backups)	Backup window (but always make sure that the job successfully finished --> if not: network throttling!)
High	Low (but above 1Mbps upstream)	Yes (network speed is low during backups)	Network throttling
Just enough / Low	Low (below 1 Mbps upstream)	Yes (processes are lagging and network speed is low)	Upgrade your internet connection :( - If not possible: Backup window (but no guarantee that the first full backup will ever finish --> seeding is recommended!) OR enable throttling through Windows PowerShell

Cloud backups: compression

CPU + RAM resources	Network bandwidth	Storage space	Compression
High	High	3 times the backed up data	Optimal (recommended)
Just enough / Low	High	3 times the backed up data	Optimal (recommended)
High	Low	1-2 times the backed up data	Extreme
Just enough / Low	Low	1-2 times the backed up data	Extreme (especially if backups run during the night when users are not online)